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Building the Revolutionary Party in Theory and Practice Building the Revolutionary Party in Theory and Practice Looking Back and Ahead after 25 Years of organized Struggle for Bolshevism By Michael Pröbsting Published by the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency Building the Revolutionary Party in Theory and Practice Looking Back and Ahead after 25 Years of Organized Struggle for Bolshevism By Michael Pröbsting This book is dedicated to all those who devote their lives to the working class’ liberation struggle and to the building of the revolutionary world party without which this liberation struggle can not win. Published by the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT) Web: www.thecommunists.net Email: [email protected] Phone: +43 (0)650 406 83 14 Address: Füchselhofgasse 6, 1120 Vienna, Austria The RCIT has sections in: Pakistan (Revolutionary Workers Organisation, RWO) Sri Lanka (United Lankan Workers Party, ULWP) Brazil (Corrente Comunista Revolucionária, CCR) Israel/Occupied Palestine (Internationalist Socialist League, ISL) USA (Revolutionary Workers Collective, RWC) Austria (Revolutionary Communist Organisation for Liberation, RKOB) In addition the RCIT is collaborating with the Blog vansterparlan.v-blog.se (Sweden) and socialists in Yemen. © Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT) and Michael Pröbsting All rights reserved First Edition 2014 Impressum: Revolutionär-Kommunistische Organisation zur Befreiung (RKOB), Füchselhofgasse 6, 1120 Vienna. Print: Riegelnik, Vienna Contents 3 Contents Introduction . 5 I. The Revolutionary Party and Its Role in the Class Struggle . 6 Class Independence through Class War . .7 Class War as the Organized Struggle Led by the Revolutionary Party . 8 The Proletariat as a Homogenous but Multi-Layered Class . 12 Marxism, Fatalistic Objectivism, and Voluntary Subjectivism . 15 The Party as Vanguard . 16 Leadership, Party, and Class . 18 The Revolutionary Party Brings Class Political Consciousness to the Proletariat . 21 On the Bolsheviks, Their Membership, and Their Leadership . 25 II. The Revolutionary Party and its Characteristics . 32 Unity of Theory and Practice . 33 Devotion of the Party’s Militants . 34 Program First . 37 Propaganda and Agitation . 40 Communist Work among the Masses . 43 Class Composition and Orientation to the Non-Aristocratic Layers of the Working Class . 44 Tactics in Building the Revolutionary Party . 50 The Communists’ Obligation to Work and Democratic Centralism . 52 The Struggle against Bourgeois and Petty-Bourgeois Influences in the Working Class . 54 Building the Party in the National and International Realms Must be a Simultaneous Process . 58 III. 25 Years of Building of Our International Tendency . 64 i) Workers Power (Britain) and the MRCI in 1976–1989: The Beginning of the Reconstruction of Revolutionary Marxism . 66 ii) The LRCI in the Period 1989-2001: The Collapse of Stalinism and National Liberation Struggles . 69 1989-1991: Political Revolution and Social Counterrevolution in the Stalinist States . 69 1991: The Imperialist Attack against Iraq . 73 1992-1995: Balkan Wars . 74 1997-1999: The National Liberation Struggle in Kosova and NATO’s War against Serbia . 77 1994 until Today: The Uprising of the Chechen People 4 BUILDING THE REVOLUTIONARY PARTY against the Russian Occupation . 78 The Difficulties in Party Building in the 1990s and the Struggle against Passive Propagandism . 79 Discussing the Character of the Period . 81 iii) The LRCI/LFI in the Period from 2001 to 2008: Pre-Revolutionary Period of Imperialist Wars and Resistance . 84 2001: The Imperialist War of Aggression against Afghanistan . 84 2003-2011: The War in Iraq and the Struggle against Imperialism . 85 Revolutionary Developments in Latin America: Argentina, Venezuela, Bolivia, and the Bolivarian Movement . 86 The Anti-Globalization Movement . 88 The Crisis of Reformism and the New Workers’ Party Tactic . 89 Internal Debates and the Split in 2006 . 91 Growth … and Harbingers of Problems in the Future: Class Composition, Orientation, and Our Struggle against Aristocratism . 94 Growth in South Asia . 99 iv) 2008 – 2011: The LFI’s Failure to Meet the Challenges of the Revolutionary Period of Historic Crisis of Capitalism . 101 Failure to Understand the Nature of the Period . 101 Failure to Understand the Oppression of Migrants and the Nature of the Labor Aristocracy . 103 The Practical Demonstration of the LFI’s Centrism during the August Uprising 2011 in Britain . 106 Failure to Understand and to Fight against Centrism . 110 Split, Decline, and Further Political Degeneration of the LFI . 113 v) An Ongoing History: The Foundation and Rise of the RCIT since 2011 . 119 Growth and Exemplary Mass Work . 120 Marxist Theory and Propaganda . 123 IV. Lessons for the Future . 132 Centrality of the Bolshevik Organization – Nationally and Internationally . 132 The Unity of Theory and Practice Must Be Implemented in all Areas of Party Work . 132 The Centrality of the Revolutionary Program . 134 Further Development of Program and Theory . 135 Importance of Exemplary Mass Work . 136 Splits and Fusions . 136 Building the Communist Pre-Party Organization in the Working Class . 138 Struggle against Left-Reformism and Centrism . 139 Introduction 5 Introduction A few months ago, our movement commemorated its 25th anniversary. In the summer of 1989 our predecessor organization, the League for a Revolutionary Communist International (LRCI) was founded as a democratic-centralist international tendency based on an elaborated program. The Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT) continues the revolutionary tradition of the LRCI. Below we give an overview of our history, an evaluation of its achievements as well as mistakes, and a summary of the lessons for the struggles ahead. This book summarizes our theoretical and practical experience of the past 25 years. 1 * * * * * In Chapter I we will outline a summary of the Bolshevik-Communists’ theoretical conception of the role of the revolutionary party and its relation to the working class. In Chapter II we will elaborate on the essential characteristics of revolutionary party respective of the pre-party organization. In Chapter III we will deal with the history of our movement – the RCIT and its predecessor organization. Finally, in Chapter IV we will outline the main lessons of our 25 years of organized struggle for building a Bolshevik party and their meaning for our future work. 2 * * * * * We wish to express our special thanks to comrade Gerard Stephens who performed the English-language editing for this book. 1 Michael Pröbsting, the author of this book, became a political activist at the age of 14. Two years later, in 1984, he became a member of Ernest Mandel’s Fourth International (United Secretariat). After a faction struggle against the centrist policy of its leadership, he left them in February 1989 and joined the LRCI (renamed to League for the Fifth International in 2003). He served on the leadership bodies of the Austrian section from 1989 and of the LRCI/LFI from 1994 until he and his comrades- in-arms were expelled by the majority of this organization in April 2011. He worked as a fulltime party worker for the LFI since 1991. After their expulsion, the comrades founded the Revolutionary Communist Organization LIBERATION in Austria and the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency which today has sections in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Israel/Occupied Palestine, Brazil, USA and Austria as well as comrades-in-arms in Yemen and Sweden. He serves as the International Secretary of the RCIT. 2 We also refer readers to two documents on party building which our movement has previously published and which give a useful overview of our viewpoint: LFI: The Method and Principles of Communist Organization (2007), in: Documents of the League for the Fifth International, Vol. 1, 2009; LRCI: Theses on the Early Stages of Party Building, in: Trotskyist Bulletin No. 2 (1992). However, the latter text contains some erroneous formulations concerning the role of intellectuals in a communist pre-party organization which we correct in the present publication. 6 BUILDING THE REVOLUTIONARY PARTY I. The Revolutionary Party and Its Role in the Class Struggle One of the most fundamental distinctions between authentic Marxism and its various caricatures propagated by petty-bourgeois intellectuals is whether it is primarily a Weltanschauung, or world view, which serves the proletariat as a “guideline to action” or if it is merely a sociological theory which is confined to analyze developments in the class society. As is well-known, Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Trotsky were ardent supporters of the viewpoint that Marxism is a method – the materialistic dialectic – a scientific instrument for understanding all phenomena in society as well as nature and for serving humanity by allowing it to intervene and model the world in its own interests. Marx and Engels expressed this viewpoint in numerous writings. Probably the most famous formulation is the Marx’s 11th thesis on Feuerbach: “Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.” 3 Engels expressed this fundamental thought in the following way: „And Communism now no longer meant the concoction, by means of the imagination, of an ideal society as perfect as possible, but insight into the nature, the conditions and the consequent general aims of the struggle waged by the proletariat.“ 4 From this follows that Marxism can never be a “neutral” theory standing above the classes and their
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